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Cool ideas but you’ve missed the mark a bit:
“Dark Ages” was coined by the humanists in the early renaissance.
Francesco Petrarca in particular came up with the term and he lived in the 1300s around the time of Boccaccio and Chaucer, right after Dante, Francis of Assisi, Giotto and Cimabue.
Not exactly. Yes, Petrarch wrote: “Amidst the errors there shone forth men of genius; no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom”. But this is not the end of the story, nor does it include the term “Dark Ages”.
But, It was in Volume X (1602) of Annales Ecclesiastici that Cardinal Baronius coined the term “dark age” for the period between the end of the Carolingian Empire in 888 and the first stirrings of Gregorian Reform under Pope Clement II in 1046.
But the term got its weight and commonly understood meaning from Protestant writers such as Gilbert Burnet, or Enlightenment figures like Voltaire or Kant.
True.However, one could argue that some of the Renaissance humanists were closer to Enlightenment ‘philosophes’ than to Bonaventure, Aquinas, Albert the Great, et cetera.
Hi guys,
This was one of your best podcasts and thank you for re-establishing what I already knew about the “Dark Ages” and what I learned today. You did a great job. The establishment of colleges, hospitals, philosophies studies, theology, canon law etc. were all things I learned but they were just briefly touched upon and I either did not know or had forgotten about papal charters for Oxford, Cambridge, cathedral schools or universities, etc. I always think Chaucer when I think of this time period. I should re-visit his works. I learned the first notes written down were for the Gregorian Chant which makes so much sense for that time in history. The Church was the center of learning. It was the patron of the arts as it could afford to be.
Thanks for the origins of the word gamut or running the entire gamut. I am a wordsmith.
Ryan Scheel is a self-educated soul who is essentially uptight or very intense. Ryan Della Crosse is his opposite as far as keeping it loose. Sometimes a little too loose. Fr. Rich is in between and one is always aware of his love for his vocation. You make a good mix of moderators. Ryan S. does a good job of reining in Ryan D. and Fr. Rich when they get carried away with their own humor. What shines through all of you is your love of your God and being Catholic.
There was a documentary, perhaps PBS, that once that showed viewers the Book of Kells and the workmanship was incredible and so poetic and beautiful as well as mystical. It has an aura of mysticism about it. I remember we only got to view a small portion of it and it was handled by people using plastic gloves. It is sacred for sure.
Fr. Rich, good point, some people never leave their own personal version of the ‘dark ages’ behind them. They carry the bad times with them throughout their lives and it colors how they live and how they view the world and its people.
Ryan S., you are right, the Internet has become our new Wikipedia and encyclopedia britannica and so much more. It is the world’s depository of information. We would be plunged into another version of the ‘dark ages’ if we were permanently unplugged.
Thank you for an excellent podcast and what we have learned. God bless us everyone as Tiny Tim would say!
I’m actually pretty shocked at this podcast- the first five minutes where the commentators tell how the Dark Ages were mainly caused by an English propaganda campaign against Catholics……??????? How could you do a show about the Dark Ages and not mention all the Christian people that the Catholic Church had killed seems pretty unbalanced (and kinda sick) to me.